Geoponika

The incomplete work on agriculture in a 9th-cent. ms., published by de Lagarde
under the title ‘Geoponica’, has been identified as a translation of a work
by Vindanius Anatolius of Beirut (4th cent.),
for which only a fragment in Greek survives, though his work was used by
Cassianus Bassus (6th cent.) and thence in the later Greek Geoponika (ed. H.
Beckh, 1895). The Syriac was translated into Arabic, and this in turn was
used in Ibn Waḥshiyya’s ‘Nabatean Agriculture’ and in the work attributed to
‘Balinas’ (Apollonius of Tyana). The Syriac translation is of considerable
lexical interest (Seidel). What was once thought to be a second ms. (Mingana
Syr. 599) has been shown to have been derived from a copy made from the
printed edition.

J. Hameen-Anttila, ‘The oriental tradition of Vindanius Anatolius of
Berytus’ Synagoge georgikon epitedeumaton’,
in his The Last Pagans of Harran. Ibn Waḥshiyya and
his Nabatean Agriculture (2006), 33–45.

A. McCabe, ‘Anatolius’, in her A Byzantine
Encyclopaedia of Horse Medicine (2007), 71–97.